A Deeper Knowledge For Self Practice and Teaching

Foundational 200HR In Person Training

Foundational Training 2024

This is a Circle Yoga Shala 200Hour Yoga Teacher Foundational Training facilitated by Kate Bee and hosted by a local Shanti Yoga in St. Louis, MO

“This is a WAY teaching, not a WHAT, and will support any desire aimed at a deeper understanding of how to take all action; on and off the mat.”
— Circle Yoga Shala

This foundational yoga training is for you if you want to…

LEARN MORE

- Deepen your own personal knowledge and practice

- Learn more about somatic inquiry through posture, meditation, and breathwork practices. All with the aim to slow the mind and tap into sensation

- Dive into functional movement changing the way you move on and off the mat. We are interested in building strength and mobility in a sensitive and honest way —honoring the uniqueness of all individuals and natural anatomy of the body

- Explore the inner workings of the body, heart, and mind in a space that encourages curiosity and diversity in opinions and experiences

KNOW MORE ABOUT YOURSELF

- Break old habits and coping strategies

- Find your inner wisdom

- Explore philosophical concepts and history of the tradition without being told “what to believe”

SERVE OTHERS

- If teaching is your aim, step into your community with confidence and the ability to be of service

- Be supported by a team of master teachers (over 30+ years of collective experience) and a network of graduates. We have a yoga teacher’s circle every month to build community, share experiences, and continue our education!

- Do not be limited to a “style” of yoga, but rather be able to teach and practice ANY style. We explore many class variations including but not limited to power yoga, restorative yoga, vinyasa yoga, chair yoga, and more.

- Find your own authentic teaching voice by practice teaching in a safe, welcoming space

- Develop the ability to plan a sequence for a class with intelligence and creativity

- Be able to modify the same class for special populations including but not limited to the elderly, prenatal, children

“The CYC Yoga Training was a wonderful opportunity to improve my my yoga practice, deepen understanding of myself, and and offered a unique path in the world of yoga to inquire into the condition of the body and the mind.

The experience opened space for more freedom of movement while offering a way to more deeply appreciate my natural limits - this was true not only on the yoga mat but also more fully as I move through the world.

— Andrew, 2022 200-Hour Graduate

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Curriculum Overview

Our method uses practice teaching to cultivate a thorough understanding of the content. We utilize a layered approach that addresses the various ways people learn: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Each of the intensive breaks down into three main divisions of content; Posture Practice, Philosophy, and Methodology.

  • Dive into the core principles of Hatha Yoga exploring the following: Asana (Movement & Stillness), Pranayama (Breath), Vinyasa (Rhythm), Bandha (Integration) Drushti (Presence)

    Discover what actions are universal and must be taken to be stable and at ease in core postures. From this foundation, any body can practice in a safe and transformative way

    Understand how to language, organize and disseminate yoga lessons to public classes

    Dive into Joint Anatomy and the Spiral Body

    Learn Pranayama (or breath techniques) to calm the para sympathetic nervous system (the rest and digest part of your nervous system)

    Explore Meditation and Kriya techniques

  • Principles of Vinyasa Krama, a step by step progression to an aim

    Principles of sequencing a class to develop a natural flow and prepare the body for certain movements

    Spinal planes of movement

    Practice Teaching: receiving feedback, observing others teaching and hearing/giving feedback. Also includes assisting students while someone else is teaching.

    Principles of Demonstration, Observation, Assisting/Correcting

    Learn how to provide support and modifications for Prenatal and Special Populations

    The business aspects of teaching Yoga and ethics for Yoga Teachers

  • Education vs Transformation

    A short History-Origins of the 5 elements

    Organs of Action and Cognition

    The 8 limbs of Yoga

    Afflictions of the mind

    Sophisticated definition of asana and pranayama

    Body mind connection/nervous system

    The Yoga Sutras and the Gita

    The Yamas and Niyamas

    The 3 Gunas

    Meditation vs Contemplation

  • 200 Hour YTT Manual

    Direct feedback and support from lead teachers and community members throughout the year

    Application and reflection journal prompts

    Access to online training site with recorded practices, pre-recorded lectures, meditations and more

    This is a Yoga Alliance Registered Program, your certificate of completion will allow you to register.

    This is a foundational training for the International Association of Yoga Therapists and will put you on track to be a Certified IAYT Yoga Therapist shoudl you continue your training through the Circle Yoga Shala.

2024 Dates at Shanti Yoga StL

Thursday, May 16th - Sunday, May 19th

Thursday, July 25th - Sunday, July 28th

Thursday, Sept 19th - Sunday, Sept 22nd

Thursday, Nov 21st - Sunday, Nov 24th

Thursdays through Saturdays run 8am - 5pm, Sundays 9am - 3pm

Program Costs

Standard Tuition is $3000

Break Down-

  • $200 deposit to secure your spot (goes towards your tuition)

  • $2800 if paid in total (two weeks before start date)

  • $750 per intensive if paid individually (two weeks prior to the start of each intensive)

The Process

  • Fill out a form and tell us a little bit about yourself and why you are interested in training

  • Your application will be responed to with the set up of a phone interview. Let’s make sure we’re a good fit!

  • After your phone interview an enrollment agreement must be signed and your deposit paid in order to secure your spot. CLICK HERE to fill out your agreement and an email to pay your deposit and access your training site will be sent in response. Spots are limited so that we can maintain a healthy teacher/student ratio.

  • You have two options to settle your tuition: pay in full at least two weeks prior to the start of the training or pay per intensive at least two weeks prior to the start of each intensive (slightly more expensive).

    Then all that is left to do is settle in to a beginners mind and show up ready to learn!

This training is the

The Circle Yoga Shala 200HR Foundational Yoga Training

Taught by Kate Bee

I trained in the Circle Yoga Shala Lineage in 2011 and began teaching this training in 2013. In 2018 I became a part of the Circle Yoga Shala faculty and haven’t looked back yet!

This training is sophisticated, effective and authentic. It takes in to account deep philosophical teachings as well as cutting edge knowledge of the body and stable, functional movement. As I developed as a teacher it became very clear to me that if I was going to teach folks how to teach, this was they way I wanted to do it.

-Kate Bee

Still Have Questions?

About Me, Your Teacher

In the beginning Yoga for me, was about Asana, posture practice. Asana made my body feel strong and mobile and fostered a deep relationship between how I thought and how I felt. Asana allowed me to fall in love with my physical container and this felt valuable, valuable enough to want to know more. So I found teachers and was taught not only how to teach Asana but all Eight Limbs of Yoga; Social Observances, Moral Observances, Breath work, Concentration, Meditation and ideas about Absorption. We also studied the greater philosophies from which the Yoga tradition comes. I continued my training completing my 500 hour teacher training and was taught more about Ayurveda, functional movement, foundations of therapeutic movement, the evolution of species and consciousness, and the contemplation that comes from self remembering.

Now so much larger than Asana, Yoga practice for me has become one of revolution. These teachings, through action, root so deeply that the self truly becomes altered. We all have a tendency to identify with prescribed versions of ourselves. So strongly that we begin to run the risk denying anything that would stand in the way of our idealized self. This idealization makes us into a type of hypocrite on some level, playing a role rather than remembering our true selves clearly. We are all in one kind of closet or another and encouraged by society to play our roles…we are all hypocrites of sorts. One moves from these unconscious behaviors to consciousness by a deliberate struggle with the “self”. It is from this idea of self revolution that the practice of Yoga continues to garner my curiosity. I understand it to be the case that we as individuals are sums of a larger whole; all the earth, water, fire, air and ether. In the fight to understand our true nature we understand the true nature of all things and in this create the capacity for a greater potential.

- Kate Bee